Presenter Profile

Recent Guest Artists at Arizona Musicfest

Also Featured at Musicfest: The Piano Guys, America, Pink Martini, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Texas Tenors, The Hot Sardines, The Ten Tenors, Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents, Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Manhattan Transfer, The Count Basie Orchestra, Steep Canyon Rangers, Human Nature, The Doo Wop Project, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many others.

In addition to its presenting series, each season also features concerts by the Musicfest Festival Orchestra, a superlative ensemble comprised of musicians from the nation’s top orchestras.

*Click HERE for recent Performance History

1,600 Seat Capacity

High-End Production Capability

*For VENUE TECH SPECS, click HERE:

Key Tech/Venue Highlights Include:

• STAGE DIMENSIONS
  • Overall Center Stage Depth: 30′
  • Overall Center Stage Width: 42’
    
• AUDIO:
  • (18) L’Acoustics KARAi in stereo hangs of 9 boxes
  • (6) L’Acoustics SB18i flown, in stereo hangs of 3
  • (2) L’Acoustics A15 (1) Wide, (1) Focus Center Cluster
  • (2) L’Acoustics A15 Wide, outfill
  • 4 L’Acoustics SB28 floor stacked, stereo stacks of 2
  • 6 L’Acoustics 5XT front fills built into front edge of stage
  • 8 L’Acoustics 12XTi delay speakers for rear fill
  • (20) Channels of Shure ULX-D Wireless
  • (14) Channels of Shure PSM-1000 In Ear Monitors
  • (1) Digico Quantum 338 with Pulse at FOH
  • (1) Digico Quantum 225 with Pulse for Monitors
• LIGHTING:
  • (56) Channels ETC 26 degree SC4 Jr Ellipsoidal and pars
  • (12) Chauvet M1Beam Fixtures (Upstage wall flown on ladder truss)
  • (22) ADJ Jolt Panel LED Fixtures (Upstage wall flown on ladder truss)
  • (24) Elation Fuze Z120 wash fixtures
  • (18) Elation Artiste Davinci LED Spot fixtures
  • 12 Blizzard Lighting HOTSTIK RGBAW LED strip fixtures for cyc lights.
  • The house lights and architectural decor fixtures are also fully dimmable.
  • Lighting control is High End Hog 4 PC with a Hoglet.
• IMAG & PROJECTION:
  • 20-Channel Blackmagic Constellation video switcher and 16 broadcast cameras
  • Panasonic 12k Laser 3 color chip projectors with (2) 16×9, 1920×1080 front and side screens

• Click Videos on the right for sample IMAG videos from Musicfest Performances

Presenter Profile

Background

• In 2025-26, Arizona Musicfest will celebrate its 35th-anniversary as a distinguished nonprofit concert presenting series in North Scottsdale, AZ
  
• Arizona Musicfest annually presents 50 concerts between November and April.
• Musicfest’s primary venue (pictured above) seats 1,600 patrons
  
• The 2024-25 season attracted over 50,000 attendees.
• Arizona Musicfest is recognized as a leading concert presenter in the Scottsdale/Phoenix/Mesa market.
• When not producing concerts, Arizona Musicfest—a non-profit organization—provides outstanding training, performance and scholarship opportunities to aspiring young musicians, as well as dynamic lifelong learning, group music-making, and creative aging opportunities for our community’s older adults.

*Arizona Musicfest is a secular 501c3 non-profit charitable organization. While the organization produces concerts in a non-denominational church venue, there is no affiliation (religious or otherwise) with the facility.

Presenter Contacts

• Allan Naplan | Executive and Producing Director, CEO | allan@azmusicfest.org | 480.422.8546
• Patrick Murphy | Director of Concert Operations | patrick@azmusicfest.org | 480.885.0891